"I can’t imagine why so many parts of people in my party continue to back away or to kind of deflect… condemning these kinds of horrific acts of terrorism."
"Members of the Democratic Party were quick to condemn the horrific Hanukkah attack in Australia, but one senator says their response clashes with years of anti-Israel rhetoric inside the party.
"Sunday's mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach left at least 15 people dead and dozens wounded. Australian authorities labeled the shooting an act of terrorism targeting the Jewish community. It sparked swift condemnation from top party politicians, from the center to the left, as well as a chorus of calls by leading Democrats to combat antisemitism.
"But Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, a fierce supporter of Israel, warned of consequences for his party's discord over the more than two years of fighting between the Jewish State and Hamas in Gaza. The senator criticized fellow Democrats for embracing what he called openly hostile, anti-Israel rhetoric that he said is now "becoming more and more part of my party’s platform."
"Fetterman's comments come as the attack is likely to intensify pressure on the party, which is already facing internal fractures over the Israel–Hamas conflict that could define its 2026 electoral messaging.
"While condemnation of the attacks was uniform among Democrats, the party has been anything but unified when it comes to bloodshed in Gaza, which was sparked by the bloody Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel.
"Nearly 1,200 people in Israel were killed after Hamas ambushed them, with over 250 people taken hostage. In the more than two years since the attack, over 70,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children, were killed during Israel's military response, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.
"Tensions between Democrats over the fighting flared at the DNC's summer meeting in August, as a party committee voted on a symbolic resolution calling for an arms embargo and suspension of U.S. military aid to Israel, which has long been the top American ally in the Middle East." . . .
The BBC is still downplaying the slaughter of Jews . . . "You only had to look at a screen last Sunday to see what “globalise the intifada” means. Jews running for their lives, gunned down in cold blood by murderous terrorists.
"The BBC however still does not seem to get it, despite the impact that “intifada” has had on Jews across the world.
"In their reporting today, BBC News described the notorious Palestinian “intifada” of recent decades as “a largely unarmed and popular uprising”.
“ 'Popular” maybe, but “unarmed”?" . . .
In the mold of Ali Velshi at then-MSNBC
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